Biotech engineered rice has few takers
Despite advancements, research programmes in rice biotechnology heve drawn lukewarm response because it is felt that there is little money to be made from the new varities.
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Conservation blues
Conservation of fruits may be difficult, but that is no excuse. Preservation of national assets should be given top priority
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The crossover
Fuel cells are more important to a developing country like India than developed countries. But the corporate sector is slow.
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Hold tight
Behold: eco development is here, again
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Virus on prowl
A virus is being used to cull the rabbit population in Australia. But will it affect other animals and spoil the ecosystem?
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High on Chinese demand
Rampant illegal iron ore mining in Karnataka s Bellary district
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Andaman and Nicobar: Beyond India's landmass
Excerpts from <i>Troubled Islands!</i> by Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Poor enforcement, weak laws make poaching an easy game
<img src="../files/images/20070930/26.jpg" align="left"/>On the night of October 1, 1998, when Salman Khan went hunting blackbucks, he was explicitly warned not to do so in the Bishnoi area because only a few have managed to get away from them. Yet Khan and his co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam, along with local contacts, went ahead and shot two blackbucks.
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Telephony regulators cannot stay speechless
The recent imbroglio on interconnectivity between cellular and fixed/WiLL CDMA subscribers left many speechless. The response came via a proxy war involving MTNL and BSNL. This is worrying; for interconnectivity is the basic technical and legal requiremen
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Callous forest law
What is needed is to undertake liberalisation from the point of view of the poor. This is the message of Dewas
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Empower civil society
Fiscal incentives for the middle class would help mobilise Indian money for NGOs. They would not have to depend on foreign funds
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Ecological poverty
As a first step, the new chief ministers should declare themselves the chief environmental officers CEOs of their states
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Jobs and the environment
The brunt of environmental protection cannot just be borne by the poor
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Whither civil society?
Is it not sad that the money given by a British middle class woman to Oxfam has to come to India to help Indian NGOs work with India's poor?
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Change is for the obdurate
The country needs our anger today
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We the regulators
Last fortnight, I said I did not know how the two Cola giants would respond to our study on pesticides in soft drinks. Now I do. I have learnt how global corporations deal with public concerns.
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Stupid growth
The Sensex stock index has risen by 75 per cent since April this year. The rupee is at a three year high. Global investment analysts Goldman Sachs predict that India is the fastest growing of the
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World class products
This last fortnight, after two disparate experiences, I came to realise there is not much difference between colas and cars. Let me explain how. A year ago, we released a study on the cocktail
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An extremely do-able job
When the new president of the Confederation of Indian Industry took charge last fortnight, he reportedly made the following observation: While the flow of direct foreign investment is important,
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A new deal
We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable dry stretches interspersed with marginal